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76ers beat Boston to tie series at one game apiece
By Mike Shalin, The Sports Xchange |
The SportsXchange – 2 hours 12 minutes ago
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BOSTON - Doug Collins sounded more like a proud father than a
basketball coach.
"Our young guys just keep growing and they're really becoming
men," Collins said Monday night, after his 76ers pulled out an
82-81 victory over the Celtics that evened the Eastern
Conference semifinals at 1-1 and gave Philadelphia the
home-court advantage in the series.
"I'm so proud of them."
With any luck, the Sixers could have emerged from the first
two games with a 2-0 series lead. But they also could have
been down 0-2, and they avoided that with a big finish Monday.
"(Boston's) Doc Rivers, arguably the best coach in the NBA,
and for our guys to just scrap through a game tonight; we just
found a way," Collins said. "All season long we couldn't win
these games and now our guys are believing they can do it, and
it is pretty special to watch."
Evan Turner converted a spectacular drive down the lane with
40.4 seconds left, giving the Sixers the lead for good. He
added two big free throws in a wild finish that helped the
76ers erase the pain of blowing a 13-point lead and losing the
opener.
"We've gotten used to it; we've learned how to pull through
and tough it out and understand what it takes to be tough
enough to pull those types of games out," said Turner, who
finished with 10 points.
The Celtics came out and jumped to a 9-0 lead, hitting their
first four shots and earning assists on all four, but Boston
wasn't really effective the rest of the night.
"I wasn't really happy, or proud, of how we played
offensively," said Rivers. "It was not very good."
The Sixers hit the Celtics with a 14-0 haymaker late in the
third quarter to take a 10-point lead while Boston was going
the final 4:44 of the quarter without a field goal. And that
came after six-minute field goal drought earlier in the
quarter.
"I think we play some of our best basketball on the road,"
said Collins.
Jrue Holiday led a balanced Philadelphia attack with 18
points, while Lavoy Allen came off the bench and was huge with
10 points, eight rebounds and tough defense on Kevin Garnett.
One of Allen's baskets came with 4:04 left as the Sixers
inbounded from the side with 0.9 seconds on the 24-second
clock and Allen banked the ball in from over 20 feet.
Asked if it was the biggest shot of his life, Allen said,
"Yeah, I would say so. I would definitely say so."
Said Holiday: "I think we're growing; we have a young team."
Ray Allen scored 17 points and Garnett, who dominated Game 1,
had 15 points and 12 rebounds for the Celtics, but three of
the points came on a meaningless 27-footer as time expired.
Rajon Rondo, who had a triple-double in the opener, had 13
assists Monday, but scored just eight points (4-for-12 from
the floor) and had seven rebounds. Paul Pierce, playing on an
injured left knee, was 2-for-9 from the floor and scored just
seven points.
"We're upset we lost the game," Pierce said, "You know nobody
likes to lose in this type of setting at home."
And now the Sixers are home for Games 3 (Wednesday night) and
4.
"It's going to be really crazy," said Turner. "It's a great
game, our fans are definitely excited and it's going to be
great to be in front of them to compete."
Said Pierce, "I mean, it is what it is. I can't change it. We
got our work cut out for us. They took home-court advantage
now. We got to try to find a way to get one or two wins in
Philly."
Avery Bradley, who has been playing with a left shoulder
injury, aggravated the shoulder in the first half and left the
game. He returned for the fourth quarter and made some big
plays, including a 3-pointer from the left corner with 2:22
left that put the Celtics ahead.
NOTES: Boston's Mickael Pietrus revealed before the game he
will need surgery on his right knee during the offseason, but
that won't keep him from playing in the playoffs. "They need
to clean out some of the tissue in there," he said. "It is
hurting a little bit, not as much as it used to. It can wait."
He hit two huge 3-pointers early in the fourth quarter. ...
Collins when asked pre-game about stopping Garnett: "You're
not going to stop Garnett. What you would like to do is
protect the paint. He had eight points in the paint the other
night. If we can keep him out of the paint and make him take
long jump shots, hopefully he won't shoot as well as he has
before." ... Former Celtic fan favorite and current Bull Brian
Scalabrine was at the game doing some local television work
and was shown on the big screen, leading to chanting of his
name. ... A pre-game on-court announcement introduced the
plans for the Bill Russell statue to be installed at City Hall
Plaza.
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